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 Mint n.  Bot. The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.
 Note: ☞ Corn mint is Mentha arvensis. -- Horsemint is Mentha sylvestris, and in the United States Monarda punctata, which differs from the true mints in several respects. -- Mountain mint is any species of the related genus Pycnanthemum, common in North America. -- Peppermint is Mentha piperita. -- Spearmint is Mentha viridis. -- Water mint is Mentha aquatica.
 Mint camphor. Chem. See Menthol.
 Mint julep. See Julep.
 Mint sauce, a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats.

 Wa·ter mint A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, and sometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.
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 Ber·ga·mot n.
 1. Bot. (a) A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. (b) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).
 2. The essence or perfume made from the fruit.
 3. A variety of pear.
 4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot.
    The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot.   --Cowper.
 5. A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy.  Encyc. Brit.
 Wild bergamot Bot., an American herb of the Mint family (Monarda fistulosa).
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 Mentha aquatica
      n : a European mint that thrives in wet places; has a perfume
          like that of the bergamot orange; naturalized in eastern
          North America [syn: water-mint, water mint]